Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted October 30, 2018 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted October 30, 2018 An event today at 10AM EST, expecting updates to the iPad Pro and Macbook lines, but I hold out hopes for a much more capable Mac Mini. The Mini was always my favorite personally, for a very long time it was the easiest (and cheapest) way to get into the Mac architecture, I hope they give it some horsepower and put it back in contention for heavy Vectorworks usage.https://www.apple.com/apple-events/ https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/30/18027372/october-apple-event-live-stream-time-date-watch-online-ipad-macbook Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 10 minutes ago, Jim Wilson said: I hope they give it some horsepower and put it back in contention for heavy Vectorworks usage. For the Mac Mini as it was that would mean either, fast Intel CPU with Intel Onboard GPU (= VW lowering the GPU min Specs) or weak Intel CPU with Vega and still no VRAM. So I hope for a Mac MiniMidi with mobile GPU or better dream of a Mac Midi with PCI slots Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted October 30, 2018 Author Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted October 30, 2018 Agreed, I want them to bring back Nivida graphics! The GTX 1050 and 1060 are nice and slim and being happily stuffed into laptops across the Windows range and are doing great. I have one of the older Mac Minis (It now happily serves as a media server in my basement) that had an Nvidia 9400M and even for being a weaker offering it still ran circles around the Intel integrated options. Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 15 minutes ago, Jim Wilson said: I have one of the older Mac Minis (It now happily serves as a media server in my basement) that had an Nvidia 9400M Ha, just as my Time Machine ... ah ... former Mac Mini Server from late 2009. I always thought it would have an Intel Onboard only. Should run fine with VW 2015 and 2015 Projects requirements ..... wait .... maybe better than my cMac Pro 2.1 Quote Link to comment
Kevin McAllister Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 1 hour ago, zoomer said: For the Mac Mini as it was that would mean either, fast Intel CPU with Intel Onboard GPU (= VW lowering the GPU min Specs) or weak Intel CPU with Vega and still no VRAM. So I hope for a Mac MiniMidi with mobile GPU or better dream of a Mac Midi with PCI slots Up to six cores. Still integrated graphics. It looks like they believe most people will use it as a server. I guess you could add a eGPU. Kevin Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted October 30, 2018 Author Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted October 30, 2018 1 minute ago, Kevin McAllister said: Still integrated graphics 😭 😭 😭 😭 Regardless, this is still going to be a model users ask about, especially with that sub $1k starting price. Going to push grabbing a few for testing. ONE DAY most integrated graphics will be able to handle Vectorworks, but so far very, very few can. Quote Link to comment
Mark Aceto Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 AutoCAD coming to the iPad "with performance as fast as the fastest PCs" Your move, Vectorworks. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted October 30, 2018 Author Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted October 30, 2018 It isn't actually AutoCAD. It's a Nomad-like app that can annotate and draw simple text and shapes in DWGs but thats it. They worded that very poorly. 1 Quote Link to comment
Mark Aceto Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 2 minutes ago, Jim Wilson said: It isn't actually AutoCAD. It's a Nomad-like app that can annotate and draw simple text and shapes in DWGs but thats it. They worded that very poorly. So... AutoCAD? 1 Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted October 30, 2018 Author Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted October 30, 2018 Just now, Mark Aceto said: So... AutoCAD? 🤣 Quote Link to comment
Mark Aceto Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 Safe to say the year and a half old 4-core iMac with a 4.2 base clock speed still reigns supreme for using Vectorworks 2019 SP1 (and foreseeably SP2)? Quote Link to comment
Mark Aceto Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 Also of interest, new Blackmagic eGPU shipping in November: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/HMQT2VC/A/blackmagic-egpu-pro Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted October 30, 2018 Author Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted October 30, 2018 An eGPU makes even more sense for the Mac Mini, since you only have to push things one way, from the Mac to the eGPU to the display. Most of the real trouble I had here was trying to convince an eGPU to output back to the Macbook's internal display that I was testing with. Quote Link to comment
Mark Aceto Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 As much as I'd love to ditch Apple's tiny mirror of a display on an iMac/Pro, spending $3,000 on a 6-core (toaster) 3.2 Mac Mini + an eGPU is not something I'm interested in as a person who earns a living using VW. And the 4-core is an i3 !!! Every year, we wait and we hope, and every year we're disappointed and price gauged. The hacintosh is looking better and better all the time. 1 Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted October 30, 2018 Author Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted October 30, 2018 If instructing my users in the creation of Hackintoshes wasn't in the realm of DMCA-danger for our company, something we absolutely wouldn't want to risk, I would have yearly tutorials on doing it. I personally can't recommend them enough, They work so well and show that the OS really does shine if you give it the right guts. 4 Quote Link to comment
Mueller Design Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 @Jim Wilson Do you need my email address to Hackintosh away without risking VW liability 🙂 1 Quote Link to comment
Kevin McAllister Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 1 hour ago, Jim Wilson said: Regardless, this is still going to be a model users ask about, especially with that sub $1k starting price. Going to push grabbing a few for testing. ONE DAY most integrated graphics will be able to handle Vectorworks, but so far very, very few can. ^ do you think if the VGM went direct to Metal that the integrated graphics would be a more viable option than they are now under OpenGL? Kevin Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted October 30, 2018 Author Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted October 30, 2018 2 minutes ago, Kevin McAllister said: ^ do you think if the VGM went direct to Metal that the integrated graphics would be a more viable option than they are now under OpenGL? Yes. Metal is highly optimized for integrated graphics and runs very efficiently on them. Quote Link to comment
Kevin McAllister Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 (edited) 5 minutes ago, Jim Wilson said: Yes. Metal is highly optimized for integrated graphics and runs very efficiently on them. So mac users should all be pushing for a direct to Metal option of the VGM if we want access to cheaper hardware in the future.... 🙂 This is also good news for VW users who prefer a laptop - https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/10/30/macbook-pro-getting-radeon-pro-vega-graphics-options-in-november I was really hoping for six core iMacs today. I really need to upgrade my system.... Kevin Edited October 30, 2018 by Kevin McAllister 2 Quote Link to comment
Mark Aceto Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 (edited) https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/10/all-new-macbook-air-takes-flight/ Quote Radeon Pro Vega Graphics Coming to MacBook Pro Next Month Apple also today announced new MacBook Pro graphics options that will bring powerful Radeon Pro Vega graphics to MacBook Pro for the first time. These new graphics options deliver up to 60 percent faster graphics performance for the most demanding video editing, 3D design and rendering workloads. Notwithstanding thermal throttling, faulty keyboard that you can't take onsite, lightbar that nobody asked for and drives the price up, a removed Escape key that has to be remapped to the Caps Lock key, reflective screen and #thatdonglelife, this is encouraging news and good reason not to buy a MBP until next month. Edited October 30, 2018 by Mark Aceto 1 Quote Link to comment
Mark Aceto Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/macbook-pro-amd-radeon-vega-graphics,5882.html OF COURSE they're going to be overpriced 4GB GPU's... can't believe I fell for that. 1 1 Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 (edited) So, + good that they updated any macOS Device, Macbook Air + very good that they updated finally Mac Mini Best Keynote ever ! + No embarassing or boring 3rd party presentations + they did not announce iMac speed bumps, so hope for a redesign - they could not resist from using the tabu term "thin" - they could not resist from using the tabu term "Emoji" - they forgot the "one more thing" - not a good thing for claimed desktop love trust if they will not bring a iMac redesign soon Mac Mini + RAM not soldered !? + CPU ok + 64 GB RAM + 10 Gb NAT fine but $100 extra (?) + Ports - Onboard GPU instead of a M GPU - heat and throttling ? OK, so a Mac Mini with eGPU could be a VW Machine. Mini could replace my aging cMac Pro 2.1 - but my aging nMac Pro is meant to replace my aging cMac Pro - and there is still no trust that a coming mMac Pro could be suitable. Or 6 Mac Minis for 36 cores - nah, too tedious to maintain 6 machines .... And I am not quite sure if I really could find the right adapter daisy chain to get my old 30" Cinema Display with Dual DVI running (?) USB C/TB to TB2 > Mini Displayport > Mini Displayport to DUAL DVI or better HDMI to Displayport (?) > Displayport to Mini Display Port > Mini Displayport to DUAL DVI EDIT Forgot the eGPU, necessary anyway. And there needs to be an external Monitor plugged in anyway so it could be more reliable, beside of that strange but PlugNPlay BlackMagic thing. Which may be even cheaper than my Adapter Daisy Chain. But I'm not confident that it will really work and boot with any other eGPU or even Nvidia inside. Edited October 30, 2018 by zoomer Quote Link to comment
Ross Harris Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 And no hints about the Mac Pro... disappointing... If they can't design a tower, they've really lost it Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 (edited) Hmmh, that Mac Mini ... I think if it had decent mobile graphics that it works out of the box for VW and other 3D DCC, I would like to buy one. Should be quite portable, if you have 2 locations equipped with Power Supply, Input and Monitors. But when I tried to configure one in Euros, like 6 core i7, min RAM, only 512 GB SSD and 10 Gb, I end at 1850 € But I would still need to buy the RAM for a few hundred € and 1400 € for that new Black Magic with the mediocre Vega 56 with only 8 GB of VRAM (?) And maybe input peripherals (?) Hmmh, 3500+ € for a NUC ? Looks like Mac Rumors readers aren't very enthusiastic about the Macbook Air and iPad prices either. I am a little concerned about the T2 chip preventing installation of other OSs. Or at least make installing Linux a bit more tedious. The secure boot is said to be disable-able in an iMac Pro though. Edited October 31, 2018 by zoomer Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 9 hours ago, Aspect_Design said: And no hints about the Mac Pro... disappointing... If they can't design a tower, they've really lost it So Tim was serious when said that he told Pro Users should go with the iMac Pro for now as the mMac Pro will not come that soon but in 2019. Maybe a late 2019 model that ships early 2020, again ? Quote Link to comment
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